On 20th August 2010, Iran announced that it has successfully test fired a new missile called Qiam-1.
India has a series of ballistic missiles called Agni, of which the latest is Agni-V.
The missile, called Shahab-3, has a range of 806 to 930 miles, which means it can reach Israel and American troops in the region.
It has demonstrated a winged missile, called Pegasus, which is carried under the belly of an airplane before blasting off into orbit.
Others argued that some of its variations, such as spaced-based missiles called kinetic kill vehicles, will not work.
By the late 1990's, though, it became clear that China had shipped such missiles, called M-11's, to Pakistan.
Your reports also refer to another Indian missile called Agni, which means "fire."
The two planes shot down over the past two years were hit by infantry soldiers armed with small hand-held surface-to-air missiles called SAM-7's.
Western defense manuals put the range of the Soviet missiles, called Scud-B's, at 250 miles.
The cosmodrome was originally constructed as a launch site for intercontinental ballistic missiles called Svobodny-18.